40 days. A sojourn in the desert. Testing. Trial. Reflection. Repentance.
What does Lent mean to you?
Schedule of Activities
March 5: Ash Wednesday Services at 8:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., located in Bramblett Chapel
Wednesdays, March 12-April 16: Visio Divina Wednesdays, a time of guided reflection from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Bramblett Chapel
Sunday, March 16: Organ Dedication Concert, 6:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, April 18: Good Friday Tenebrae Service in the Sanctuary
Sunday, April 20: Easter Services at FBC, 9:30am and 11:00am; Bring flowers from your home garden to place on the Easter cross outside the Chapel
Visio Divina Wednesdays
The season of Lent is a season for meditation, introspection, and repentance. For forty days, Jesus was tempted in the desert, forced to confront his own humanity. Likewise, the forty days of Lent provide Christians with an opportunity to reflect on our spiritual journey and how well we are living up to the ideals of our faith. Starting on Wednesday, March 12 through Wednesday April 16, we want to open the Chapel space for a time of reflection and meditation. We will utilize the practice of “Visio Divina” (Latin for “holy seeing”). Each week will feature a different piece of visual art along with some poetic reflections that will invite us deeper into a Lenten spirituality of conversion and trust in Christ. The chapel will be open each Wednesday in Lent from 12:00 pm -1:00 pm. At 12:15, Pastor Steven will give a short history of the art piece for that week and guide participants in a time of personal reflection. Despite the name, we will not be providing lunch, though participants are welcome to bring a sack lunch if you choose.
“But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”
― Philippians 3:7-11 (NIV)
Good Friday Service
April 18, 2025
7:00 p.m. | Sanctuary
A Service of Shadows
Telling the story of Christ’s passion
Accompanied by organ
“All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that weakness we must repeat what has been said more than once; that it was not the weakness of a thing originally weak. It was emphatically the strength of the world that was turned to weakness and the wisdom of the world that was turned to folly.
In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst.” — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
How do you and your family observe Lent?
Do you have special practices that you would be willing to share with us? Drop us an email and let us know.